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Oregon hospital gets on board with free Wi-Fi

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, June 9, 2006

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A new wireless network at Salem Hospital in Oregon has made the Internet available to patients, visitors, and family members with portable computers or hand-held electronic devices.

Wireless Internet access, known as Wi-Fi, is the first stage in an advanced electronic medical records system that the hospital will develop during the next several years. The system will allow physicians and nurses to access patients' records from their bedsides.

Like other large companies that deal with copious amounts of digital information, Salem Hospital will not store patients' medical records on hospital servers. Instead, an outside host with a proven security record will host patients' medical files, cutting down the possibility of access by people who shouldn't see the files.

Source: Statesman (OR) Journal



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